New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-04
STRIKERS LOSING GROUND
PLENTY OF NEW MEN TO BE EMPLOYED.

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WORK GOING on FAIRLY wELL-PoLIcE READY Fo
| AN DECENTRALIZATION OF BUSINESS MEN.
Tho situation in regard to the strikes In prosres
may be summed up thus While In some directions tn
strike il spreading slightly and while most OF th
steamship coal and transI ortation companies as wei
M the general business interests OF the city are sunei
ing serious loss the companies against whom the strS
"a directed are daily getting in better condition to re
sjst the demands made are getting more men and arr
doing better work. The only hope that the strikers
have of Ia so to hamper business as 10 prnl
about settlement of the trouble by arbitration Inc
strikers still maintain their discipline pretty hrmiy
There are now on strike nearly 49, 600 mep with per
hans halt that number out OF work through the stop
maze of business incident to the strike
Eespite the fact that the strike Is losing ground
moro men wee thrown out of work Yesterday by its IN
anence. Some engineers, members OF the ExcentriC
Association of Engineers decided that they womb MOI
handle non-union coal, and in consequence the EN-
nioves of f. s. Higgins 81 Co.'S carpet factory, al
Eleyenth-ave and FOrty-third-st., arc again out OF
work the engineer having refused to have 70
do with scab" coal. The breweres OF BeadlestOn "
Woerz and David Stevenson have been Obliged TO smut
down because the engineers refused TO hanOie non
union coal and because the malsters refused 10 nahae
mont MON grain, At the headquarters OF Distrct AS
scrbly No 40 lt was said that other factories VIII
probably be closed shortly. go ,
Tine men on strike are now willing to do anything they
can honorably to bring about settlement Inc Leaders
say that they have sent communication 10 inc com
pnes since the breaking of OF the last conference nor
bave they received They VIII not take tne lnii
tive but are willing to leave the matter OF the coal
handers' demands to any impartial ret OF arbrators.
and when the coal trouble is settled will at once end
The strike They profess to be willing testify before
tbo Assembly committee whenever called upon.
Dispatches were received by Master Workman quinn
Yesterday announcing that the Goa Handlers at Port
Richmond had Joined the strike and that more en-
pICves OF the Jersey Central road WI 90 out to-day
The announcement also made that other employ es
OF the New-York City and Northern Railroad had quit
work.
Arrangements have been made for series OF mass
meetings on Saturday night. They will be held nj
Tompkins Square, Union Square. Abingdon Square,
Rutgers Square and the at Canal and W est ss
Every prominent labor agitator In New-fork and It's
vicinity will speak Besides the general discussion on
the strike the rent question will be talked over
Union men been instructed by the various local
assemblies not 10 do any work on the Odd Dom mon
steamer Guyandotte. The replies TO the appear ior
sub.crDtons to the strike fund are said to be coming
in satisfactorily.
Jobn r. Maxwell. The vce-r resident of the Long
Island Railroad and the representative OF Austin
Corln was asked ycstei day it was true that James
f. Quinn had written n letter TO Mr.. Corbiu asking him
10 ac ~ mediator in tho strike Mr.. Maxwell SAID That
no letter had been received but that meeting between
Mr. Corbin and "a representative OF the hnlSh'S Oh
Labor was arranged by telegraph and that the repre-
sentative met Mr. Corbn on Tuesday. Whether TIM.
wa. Mr.. Quinn Nr Maxwell said he did not ieel ~
liberty TO say As to any Fielding on the pait OF u'
vidual companies or any compromise with the men,
Mr. Maxwell said that h. saw no possibility OF this.
New men had been obtained in abundance aud THESE
would not he discharged to make places Tor II Ola
M should they Wish 10 get DICK lH-it w
tainly appeared why there should he com,
promise or yelling to the men M the ones,ioh OF
wages There were too man, men ldie 10 MAKE lne
lane. n Seymonr. G. Waldo Smith, JOHN +. Henry
and George C. Batchellcr as committee representing
bu.uc.s interests have called meeting for tomorrow
eyening at Steinwny Hall. to CONSIDER the cause ana
cure of tho wrongs wch business men and others are
being made to suffer by the strike.
TmE POLICE AEEANGEMENTS
The reports Of violent behavior the part OF s'rk
or. in Westst on Wednesday convinced Superintend'
cnt Murray that the police must he made more active
m preyentiug such scenes Yesterday he relieved Cap
rain Ga.t,iu from the immediate command OF IN, police
ava the North River piers He directed Inspector steers
10 take personal command OF the police o. both nVer
fronts The police force along the N"rth h"et was w
creased nv sending reserves IRON uptown precincts
-Four reserve stations, Tier No ~ Last hiNeI o'
and Piers Nos 80 and jOia North River, were placed
in charge OF Captains Murphy. Sanders 1ule apd gar
land At the Inspector hah hchtiy l'VV" "'"o'
really TO enforce order. Mot OF them were sci To
patrong the piers. but at each reserve station were
fity men and patrol wagon. ZACH station "a5 con
neced with all the others and WIN fohce Hehu,
quarters by telegraph wires Mr Murray SAID ne oohlu
SEND another thousand men from interior precincts at
short notice. Mr. Steers made ms headquaitefs a' rI
No 30 North River. and kept Captain 'astIh win
him "a n assistant In order 20 insure prompt ~ rests
in cascs OF assault the Superintendent also sent 70 the
river fronts about 100 picked detectives IN P'"nn
ootbcs They had revovors In their pockets and short
Gibbs concea ed about them They 90 n groups oil Tour
ar five hut not cose enough together To attract notice
The Superntcndeuts precautions had the approval OF
the Police Commissioners. Late In the afternoon Mr
Steers went to Police Headquarters and reported that
the strikers had been quiet.
there wa. a large gathering OF onGsho emen IN west
81 near Canast., but tho police easily kept them IN
check There was busy at the pier OF the Erie
Railroad where the 100 ltaians who were beng ied
and lode in "a barge near by were 81 work ffeght
was handled almost well a. before the strike only
perishablc freight refused. and by TINS morning
The company VIII be in condition 10 take charge OF
that class oi freight No one would have known rom
the Lusy scene inside ui er No. lennsN yana Rail
road that there had been strike. large number oil
sturdy Germans were at work. No work was done AT
pier 40 30 also controlled by tho Pennsylvania Kali
road II was learned that ] 30 men bad been brought
Inv the c,m,,nny from Cincinnati, but in Jersey City
fourteen OF them dissuadcd by strikers from oross-
inc tho river and the others refused To 20 To work.
The strLe OF few men did not Interfere with the work
at Pier No. 20 of the Ncw-iork Central kmlrold
i,r,cr number of men than usual employed. Il
LARGO squad OF policemen stationed In and about
:, Johns Park Depot to guard the men who would not
Ic,yo the company. Only sixty went ont on Nednes-
iay and Yesterday most OF them returned to work The
Ncw-Jcrsey Central Company put %'o green men AT
work on Pier No. II. They were Germans, Russians
and Sy eos and board and lodge In baIges at the pior
Alexander TAYLOR the steyedOre OF the Guion Line,
who STAYED with tho company during the STRIKE was
induced TO quit work Yesterday while tho green hands
were at work the Arizona His place was iminedi-
o,elv filled The GuVandOto OF the old Dominion Limo
ay alongside the pier yesterday and another steamer
of the same limo ut her side. Every passenger ana
every package OF freight arc carefully scTutnlLed.
Work nj the other piers went as smoothly as posi-
bic under the circumstances On the East side there
WAS no disturbance OF any klnd. =, g :.
The only gain made by the striGo on the balti-
more a,d Ohio pier. No ~, North River, whero the
men quit work late in the day. They loaded all the
freight on the pier and swept the pier to show that
thew didn't stop OF their own accord
Robert Hunt OF No. 1916 West-st, u non-union man,
works at the National Line pier lie was followed
from the pier last evening by crowd OF ongshoremen,
and m he started up hesta OF the Elevated rail ay
station at West Houston aud Greenwich ats. he was
SET upon dragged to the street and severely beaten.
The police saved him from being badly hurt
Henry Shaw, OF No 3lS West Eleyenth-st., was on
his way last evening TO the Guion Steamship pier,
where he ia employed rigger At Pcrry and wash
inOn cts. he was attacked by three 'longshoremen,
knocked down, beaten and kicked. Ills assailans ran
away at the approach OF the police
TIE COAL STRIKE VIRTUALLY ENDED.
Many retail dealers are congratulatng Themselves
that they have contracts ahead for COAL they
daily looking Tor advance in the price. Tbs whole
decl that there will not he nm